When I look at items for sale on eBay.ie I see lots of items that are in England, and when I check on eBay.co.uk I can see the same items for sale there.
Is there actually difference between eBay.ie & eBay.co.uk?
I don't think that there's any difference in terms of the auctions/sales listed. I think the .ie URL just allows them to customise the display of certain information (e.g. € prices, cost of delivery to Ireland etc.). Or maybe that is done off the user's profile settings?
Agreed with all Eurofan says. Ive found the trick is to find a .co.uk seller with cheap courier prices. Ive seen delivery prices to eire range from free to 40 pounds sterling for relatively non bulky items, but did have one quite heavy item delivered for £9 sterling. It would have cost more to ship the same item from another hit on ebay.ie
Ive read of cases where people have organised their own courier at a cheaper rate. You could try this.
or you can use norn iron address if you know somebody living there. especially good with amazon who can have free delivery to uk addresses. unfortunately I think theres a strike sityaitchen ( with apologies to dr m) in the postal system there at present